[nmglug] hard disk usage

[BrianO'Keefe]

I shall do so. I do compact mail folders regularly.
Thanks Ed and Jason. I think I'll start some slash and burn. Any ideas
about Ed's comments on my home/mozilla directory Jason?

Jason Schaefer wrote:
> try these two things
>
> 1. in synaptic go to settings -> preferences -> files and click the
> "Delete Cached Package Files" button. You might also select the option
> to "Delete downloaded packages after installation"
>
> 2. in Thunderbird go to File -> "compact folders". Depending on how
> much mail you have this can really save some space. You can set it to
> automatically run when mail reaches a certain size. Go to Edit ->
> preferences -> advanced -> check off under "disk space"
>
> Good luck
>
> Jason
>
>
> Ed Brown wrote:
>> The symbiotic relationships between mozilla, firefox, thunderbird and
>> other stuff is hard to sort out.  But ~/.mozilla is more than
>> preferences (at least everywhere I've used it), it usually has Cache
>> directories, that can get Large, including firefox's Cache
>> directories.  You really should be able to install Firefox without
>> having Mozilla installed, and that would get you significant space
>> back, but maybe it's different on Ubuntu...
>>
>> BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>>> it's home/mozilla and I have a home/.mozilla for preferences. I know
>>> Firefox uses mozilla stuff for building Thunderbird and "Bon Echo", the
>>> Firefox 2.0 that I installed form source. Can't remove the FF1.5 as
>>> Ubuntu 6.04 uses many of its libraries for other apps. That's why it's
>>> never been backported. The application Mozilla is in /usr/bin as is
>>> Firefox. I have both the Mozilla suite and Firefox installed. i have
>>> considered uninstalling the Mozilla suite but Firefox depends on it.
>>> No yum for me as I'm on PPC-Ubuntu and so I have Synaptic.
>>>
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